Five years after Findings" broke the mould of nature writing Sort of Books presents " Sightlines". The outer world flew open like a door & I wondered
- what is it that we're just not seeing? In this greatly anticipated sequel to " Findings" prize-winning poet & renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes before sailing north into iceberg-strewn seas. Her gaze swoops vertiginously too; from a countryside of cells beneath a hospital microscope to killer whales rounding a headland to the constellations of satellites that belie our sense of the remote. Written with her hallmark precision & delicacy & marked by moments in her own life Sightlines offers a rare invitation to pause & to pay heed to our surroundings."
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Warmaster Horus has divided the Imperium in a bloody civil war but while his armies prepare for battle the Emperor himself remains curiously absent. In his place stands Malcador
- legendary Sigillite First Lord of Terra & regent to the throne & now arguably the single most powerful man in the entire galaxy. Imperial Army officer Hasani Sabbyat is seconded to Malcador's command for a secret mission into the wastelands of Gyptus & along the way he learns the truth behind the Heresy & a great deal more about the destiny of mankind. Where do Malcador's true loyalties lie?
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Ben Hartman is on holiday in Switzerland when he meets a childhood friend
- who promptly tries to kill him. In self-defence Ben
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A remote shelf in the Arctic circle. A small TV crew is braving the harsh conditions to film the breaking off of a major ice shelf
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The Shroud of Turin widely thought to be a fake is in fact authentic. The greatest mystery in history is finally solved in ...

A hilarious tour of the state of our mother tongue from the people who brought you Am I Alone In Thinking.. .? Sign Language is a collection the most inappropriate confusing poorly translated & mind-bogglingly bizarre signs from around the world. Few things amuse & appal Telegraph readers as much as the abuse misuse mistranslation & outright mangling of the English language. So for the past three years the Telegraph has run a weekly feature inviting members of the public to send in photographs of menus health & safety warnings road signs adverts headlines & personals columns
- anything in which the language has gone egregiously hilariously & usually unintentionally wrong. Entitled Sign Language the published selection of the very best images has become one of the newspapers most popular features attracting over 300 000 online visitors every week & attracting thousands of submissions from around the world. Now we present the very best of Sign Language
- both seen & unseen
- & offer a timely warning about the imperilled state of modern English.


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Would you take your toothache to a dentist called Wong Kwee Mau? Dine out at Cafe Buck Butt? Or book a cruise with Turismo Titanic? No? Perhaps you prefer to travel with Git Holidays then...? These are just a few of the many baffling alarming & unwittingly amusing signs spotted by readers of the Telegraph whilst trotting the globe. Others range from the bizarre
- accomodation facilities in a pan of fresh
- to the surprisingly honest
- Chancy Investments
- or in the case of menus the stomach-churningly revolting: anyone for bottom sauce with yogurt? & of course no collection of funny signs would be complete without a healthy dose of smut & innuendo.



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You are a wronged woman & shall have justice. Do not bring police. If you do all will be in vain. Your unknown friend. When a beautiful young woman is sent a letter inviting her to a sinister assignation she immediately seeks the advice of the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. For this is not the first mysterious item Mary Marston has received in the post. Every year for the last six years an anonymous benefactor has sent her a large lustrous pearl. Now it appears the sender of the pearls would like to meet her to right a wrong. But when Sherlock Holmes & his faithful sidekick Watson aiding Miss Marston attend the assignation they embark on a dark & mysterious adventure involving a one-legged ruffian some hidden treasure deadly poison darts & a thrilling race along the River Thames. ...

A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation. For Mary Marston has received several large pearls
- one a year for the last six years
- & now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman. If she would seek justice she is to meet her unknown benefactor bringing with her two companions. But unbeknownst to them all others stalk Londons fog-enshrouded streets: a one-legged ruffian with revenge on his mind --and his companion who places no value on human life...

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Gripping & ingeniously plotted this Sherlock Holmes novel is also an important document of late-Victorian imperialism. Arthur Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes novel is both a detective story & an imperial romance. Ostensibly the story of Mary Morstan a beautiful young woman enlisting the help of Holmes to find her vanished father & solve the mystery of her receipt of a perfect pearl on the same date each year it gradually uncovers a tale of treachery & human greed. The action audaciously ranges from penal settlements on the Andaman Islands to the suburban comfort of South London & from the opium-fuelled violence of Agra Fort during the Indian ' Mutiny' to the cocaine-induced contemplation of Holmes' own Baker Street. This edition places Doyle's tale in the cultural political & social contexts of late nineteenth-century colonialism & imperialism. The appendices provide a wealth of relevant extracts from hard-to-find sources ranging from official reports to memoirs & newspaper editorials to anthropological studies. ...